[RELEASED] Corgi Engine - Complete 2D/2.5D Platformer [new v6.6 : ability split, recoil, hitscan...]

hey ! how to use Ik ? I have punch animation and I want to use it while running or idle ..etc so i only want the hands to be effected by the animation not the whole body

 

@hassonhamo3 > What you describe is (likely) not IK, but rather layered animation. IK is a different thing (hands that remain on a gun while aiming for example). This is just regular Unity though, nothing to do with the engine. I'm sure Unity has some documentation on that : https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationLayers.html (just the first result in google, there are definitely more resources out there).

 

@reuno wow thank you so much for the quick reply and the great information

 

Apologies I was very unclear. I forgot the word "online". The local co-op is fantastic but I was wondering if online multiplayer is in the mix for a future feature?

 

@Shekkles > No, online coop (or online anything) isn't planned, as really the online implementation really depends on your game's rules, there's no silver bullet, so it'd be impossible to provide a generic solution that would accomodate for all the possible game styles you can create with the engine. And providing just one example would be of little value unless you just so happen to work on that exact same game.

 

Is it possible or can it be added?
When damage is taken by player or enemy we can control the direction they get thrown or pushed? If I hit an enemy with an uppercut I’d like to be able to have then hit into the air. Or like turtles in mario they can be pushed when jumped on? Or if meleed from behind to fall forward. Also, various death animations for both player and enemies?

Anyone have some answers?

Thanks

 

For weapons I see you have many types we can work off of but no beam weapons, is that something on your todo list?

 

@DrSizzle > All that is possible. You can define force applied per weapon, that's knockback force, as explained in the documentation. As for various death animations, that's something you typically handle in your animator, just have some random parameter in there you can act upon.
@Legionghost > It's on the todo list, although it's really just visuals at this point, so it's quite low as it's already doable.

 

Hi @reuno love your asset! I am going to update the Dash ability to be able to dash upward and diagonally as well. Before I start trying to delve into that, would you mind to give me a little direction on how you would go about doing that? I don't expect you to do the work, just want some pointers on how you might set it up so that I could potentially save myself a little headache.

Thanks!

EDIT: Got it working already. Created a new character ability based on the Dash ability and removed the portion in the first ProcessAbility() section that sets vertical force to 0, then I just slapped the vertical input into a new _computedDashForceVertical and multiplied that by dash force. Then finally setVerticalForce to that computed value.

Very readable, very well commented. Thank you.

 

I'm using the 2018.3.12fl version of unity and corgi engine 5.4. I created a platform using rule tile and then create a character with auto build. Now i can't jump with this character or walk into a 45º slope. What am i doing wrong?

 

@Robutmike > You were too fast! Coincidentally I've added that feature to the next update a few weeks ago.
@tallesmaziero > Nothing, slopes over 45° are considered as walls.

 

I'm thinking of getting the corgi engine but does the corgi engine have some sort of implementation that handles the sprite's animation from "sliding" as they move?

 

@Tycellent > I'm not sure what you're referring to? What exactly is a sliding sprite animation? Do you mean like pixel perfect camera? If yes, that's native in Unity now (and there are examples of pixel perfect scenes in the engine).

 

oo thanks for the fast reply! Sorry about not being clear. Yeah so with my sprite animations at the moment it seems like i need to match the stride of the sprites with the movement so it doesn't look like they're "sliding". So during 1 step of the sprite they may move an amount of space that's too big and it makes them look like they're sliding instead of moving 1 step at a time. Hopefully that clarifies things but i can send a gif if need be.

 

@Tycellent > Usually you tweak your animation and movement speed so they match.
There's no system reading your sprite's feet position and adapting speed to that if that's your question. I have to admit I don't know of any game that does that, usually you solve that at the animation level.

 

Ahh not a problem. I wasn't too sure myself where it would lie but it's all good. Thanks again for replying so fast!

 

The slope is exactly 45º.

i made a new project, imported Corgi Engine from the Asset Store, created a auto-build player character and my character still not jump in a straight floor. I think this is a bug.

 

I bought the Corgi Engine and have seen the tutorials to make my own game. GREAT ASSET!!!
I'm now looking on the 5.4 update tutorial on Youtube and found that the zipline is not in my asset. No scripts no prefabs.
I've checked the version on my Corgi Engine and even imported again into a new project but still couldn;t find it.
I've bought the Corgi Engine + Handcrafted Art - 2D Platformer Mega Bundle(link).
Is there any chance that some features have been omitted in the Mega bundle?

 

@tallesmaziero > Please use the support contact form if you think you've found a bug, and provide the requested info, thanks!
@ckgames-admin > You probably want to read the first, highlighted item of the FAQ. If that doesn't solve it, please let me know using the support form, thanks.

 

@reuno thanks for the reply. I bough the engine last week and I've been playing around in it. Thank you so much for all the effort you put in.

 

First I need to say, I love this engine. It made me an artist to create a game.
I am creating a multiplayer game. But I can't bring up the pauseSplash in the UI camera.
And I also looked at THE HUNT level, Its pauseSplash can't be called out either.
PS. I use joysticks as input devices.
Is it where I don't understand? please help me and thank you so much.

 

found a solution yet ? I really want that rope system so bad

 

@wangyuxuan669 > That seems entirely normal, characters in the Hunt demo don't have a CharacterPause ability. You just need to add one to your characters to have them trigger pauses, as explained in the documentation.

 

Thanks a lot! This is very useful！
But I got a new problem now. Today I open my project and run the StartScrern, the console tell me 'Scene 'LoadingScreen' couldn't be loaded because it has not been added to the build settings or the AssetBundle has not been loaded. ' I checked other levels, and all the scenes that need loading will report an error.
But I followed the cue in the build settings to see but the LoadScene is been added.

 

@wangyuxuan669 > I've never seen that error in any other context than when a scene is not in the build settings. So it's probably the issue here as well. If the problem persists try doing a fresh install of the asset in an empty project. If you have more questions like these please use the support contact form, thanks.

 

@hassonhamo3 - I've integrated Rope 2D into Corgi - it's pretty straightforward.

 

it's good to hear that , how to get it and is it free ?

 

@hassonhamo3 - I've sent You a PM.

 

I've gone through this set up before.

• Create sprite
• Add MM Trigger and Collision script
• tell it what I want it to do

In this case, when the player enters the trigger I want it to play a specific animation.

I have the animation ready to go


On the trigger I created two slots, one for the animator.enabled and the other animator.play (string) and I place the name M88 Crawler Emerge in the slot as show in the picture



But as soon as I deselect the trigger and reselect, the name disappears as shown below.





I've tried just using the Animator.play (String) alone and with the Animator.enabled.
It disappears every time.
What am I missing?

 

Sure and thanks the repeat

 

@matttardiff > There was indeed a bug in the MMTriggerAndCollision script in the last release. It's been reported around 50 times already, and fixed I had no idea so many people were using this helper. Don't hesitate to use the support form to report bugs, that way I can send you the fix directly. Note that the bug wasn't exactly what you're reporting, but it seems to work now, so I guess it also fixed this. The fix will be included in the next release of course.

 

Hi @reuno

I have been with Corgi since 2015, and finally came back to development,

Its been a long time and I want to get back into using Corgi,

I was wondering Is there a tutorial page or a video I can go to and learn about setting up a new project fresh not using corgi as a template or any of the demos and slowly building out the game,

I know you have all those YouTube videos and documentation but I cannot find a starting point and its got me mind boggled.

 

@Valathene > Well I guess the Contents of the asset and Minimal scene tutorials would be good starting points. And then pick whatever video focuses on what you prefer. The engine being an engine, and not just a reskinnable template, it's hard to make a video where you just "build the game", as it can build so many different games and gameplay styles. That wouldn't make much sense

 

@reuno
Crap, yeah I immediately forgot about the support form.
Won't happen again.

 

@matttardiff > No problem at all. Drop me a line if you want the fix before the next release

 

Question for all you Corgi users. I noticed that the character switch will not switch the current weapon. The weapon will be visible in the weapon display, but you will not be able to use it. Have any of you used the character switcher with weapons? If so, how did you work around it so the weapon will also switch.

 

@Quinn221 > Calling ChangeWeapon should do the trick. I'll add that to the next release as an option, good idea!

 

@reuno that would be great! Thanks

 

Would i be able to use these characters:
https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/1392367
https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/1382323
https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/1385436
https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/1388141
In 2.5D?

 

@SDC1235 > You can use any character you want as long as it works in Unity.

 

hi

i bought this way back in 2015, but i got sidetracked by other projects, so i've only just got round to using it in anger (on a small prototype castle-vania-em-up)

i've been plugging away for a week or two now, with the help of the documentation and the extensive examples, and so far i've been able to get round any of the obstacles i've encountered, apart from this one thing:

my player character uses a melee weapon attack. that's all set up ok and working fine. press Attack, swing the weapon, kill the things... EXCEPT:

if the player rapidly switches direction while moving and, while doing so, presses the Attack button, then the attack is successfully triggered, as expected, BUT, the corresponding attack animation doesn't play

i've twiddled around with all the variables exposed in the inspector, for the player, and for the weapon, but i'm guessing that the problem goes deeper than that, probably at the animation level. however for the life of me i can't think of any other avenues to pursue to fix it, so any suggestions would be more than welcome

 

@HCrowley > Wild guess without more details of course, but it's likely just an animator setup issue. Something (and by that I mean another transition) is preventing your attack animation to play. You'll want to tweak your transitions conditions and settings so that it doesn't happen. Usually it's mostly exit time and interruption conditions, but depending on your setup it could be something else. I recommend reading Unity's documentation about animators to learn more about it. If the problem persists please drop me a line on the support contact form.

 

Thanks for your reply
I've read the highlighted item that you've mentioned. Found out that the Corgi Engine 5.4 requires Unity 3.4 or more but my Unity Engine was also 3.4.
The Unity Asset Store only shows "import"
I tried upgrading Unity version to more recent version(now I have 3.12) but still don't have the zipline.
Thank you.
I

 

@reuno you may well be right, but i've reduced the player to the barest minimum of functioning components, i've reduced the animation controller to just idle, walk, and startMelee, and i've reduced each of those animations to just a single frame of animation, and it STILL exhibits the same behaviour (no matter how much i fiddle with transition conditions and settings)

i'll bang on for a while longer, but i may have to use the support contact form at some point, because this is preventing me from moving forward with the rest of the project

 

@ckgames-admin > As I said in my previous reply, please use the support contact form, I'm gonna need more info from you to be able to help.
@HCrowley > You can use the debugger to easily make sure the chain of events happens in the right order. If it doesn't, please let me know. Changing the duration of your animations probably won't solve the issue though, as I said, it's likely a transition issue, not an animation one. The length of the animations doesn't factor in transitions really

 

Is it possible to use two AI Decision Distance To Target in one AI character?
One for tracking players while patrolling and one for checking if the player is on effective range to hit melee attack.

 

@ckgames-admin > Yes, of course you can.

 

@ckgames-admin > The email you used to contact me (jjhhrry2@gmail.com) doesn't exist.

 

I'm asking this question from the perspective of someone that does not program. The Corgi Engine gives me 80% of what I need and until I can hire a programmer for A Crooked Heart, I have to accept my limitations.
The animation is not a cycle.

Is there a way to trigger an action more than once using the MM Trigger and Collision?
My setup on the object i want to use as the trigger

• OnTrigger2D
  • Character (under the Runtime dropdown) Animator.bool enabled
  • Character Animator.string "animation name"
• The object with the trigger is set to trigger.

The trigger works once and plays the animation I ask for.
So, when I enter the object, it'll trigger the animation.
When I leave and try to enter it again, the animation does not play.

As long as I know there's a way to do it without writing a script.
If not, I'll try to figure something out.

I also tried OnCollision2D but that doesn't fire at all.
The Collision2D issue is most likely not a bug and instead me fumbling around in the dark.

 

@matttardiff > No, there isn't. This class is just a very simple helper meant to bind stuff to Unity's native collider APIs